Denver Nuggets

Nuggets' Mudiay benched for verbal altercation with coach Malone

Published Nov. 25, 2015 4:15 p.m. ET

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The Denver Nuggets are in the midst of a four-game losing streak, and frustrations are starting to boil over.

That was evident during Denver's loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday, where Emmanuel Mudiay got into a verbal altercation with head coach Michael Malone and was subsequently benched.

Here's more on the altercation and the fallout afterwards, via Christopher Dempsey of the Denver Post:

With 1:53 left in the fourth quarter, Malone laid into Mudiay for what he thought was a subpar performance. A frustrated Mudiay didn't like the words and had a few of his own for the Nuggets coach. He was pulled from the game.

Said Mudiay: "It's just both of us being competitors. It probably was my fault, I could have been doing a lot more. So I kind of put the blame on myself. I've got nothing against Coach, I respect him. He's a great person, and I have all the respect in the world for him."